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PSP, VITA AND PS3 DIGITAL STORES ARE SET TO CLOSE –
AND SOME GAMES AREN’T AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE

138 PlayStation games will no longer be available for purchase in any form when Sony closes the PSP, PS Vita and PS3 stores this summer, VGC analysis has revealed.

Earlier this week our analysis suggested that, in total, around 2,200 digital-only games would disappear from the PlayStation marketplaces, though the vast majority would still be available on other platforms such as PC or Xbox.

However, the 138 titles listed below will essentially become lost forever on their respective platforms and are currently not available for purchase on any other formats.

Although users will still be able to redownload their previous purchases for the foreseeable future, from July 2 it will no longer be possible to buy games on the PS3 or PSP online marketplaces, and come August 27 the same will apply to the Vita too.

Games set to disappear following the PlayStation Store closures include the likes of Infamous: Festival of Blood, Echochrome II, Lumines Supernova, The Last Guy, Rain, Trash Panic, PixelJunk Racers, Tokyo Jungle, TxK and MotorStorm RC.


The majority of the PSP’s physical games were also made available digitally so PSP and Vita
owners could buy and play them. These will be gone too.


For the purposes of clarity, we’ve not included any games that released physically in any territories (unless they’re only available in a foreign language such as Japanese). For example, Echochrome and Echoshift on PSP received physical releases in the EU, and the region-free nature of the system means you can still play them globally.

Our list also includes games that are available on the PlayStation Now streaming service, but not available to own.

It’s also worth noting that some of these games have already been pulled in certain regions: Lumines Supernova, for example, was pulled from the EU store in 2017 but is still available in North America. Since digital-only games continue to release to this day, there’s also a chance that the list could grow.

Click over to our full PlayStation Store closing analysis for a breakdown of the impact Sony’s closures will cause in terms of game preservation.

Journalist Brittany Vincent argued in a VGC column that the games industry needs to increase its efforts for preserving video games, before more titles are lost to time.

“The medium is priceless – and while many of us were careless in its infancy, there’s no real excuse these days not to archive every bit of the art form we’ve come to cherish, not with high fidelity capture cards, the ability to scan items and documents directly from our phones, and literal 3D printers,” she wrote.

“If we don’t want to see additional games lost to the sands of time, it’s time to start getting serious about preservation – before it’s too late.”



THE 138 PLAYSTATION GAMES THAT SOON WON’T BE AVAILABLE TO BUY
ANYWHERE




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PSP

101-in-1 Megamix

Ape Quest

Armored Core: Last Raven Portable

Armored Core: Silent Line Portable

Armored Core 3 Portable

Beats

Black Rock Shooter – The Game

Brandish: The Dark Revenant

Carnage Heart EXA

Cho Aniki Zero

Cladun: This is an RPG!

Creature Defense

Crimson Room: Reverse

Dissidia 012 Prologus: Final Fantasy

Go! Puzzle

Gravity Crash Portable

Hot Shots Shorties Blue Pack

Hot Shots Shorties Green Pack

Hot Shots Shorties Red Pack

Hot Shots Shorties Yellow Pack

I am an Air Traffic Controller Airport Hero Tokyo

Kurulin Fusion

LocoRoco: Midnight Carnival

NeoGeo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting

No Heroes Allowed!

Numblast

Patchwork Heroes

Piyotama

Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign

Super Stardust Portable

Susume Tactics!

Talkman Travel: Paris

Talkman Travel: Rome

Talkman Travel: Tokyo

Thexder Neo

PS3

Armageddon Riders

Blast Factor

Bomberman Ultra

Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD

Catan

Comet Crash

Crash Commando

Datura

Eat Them!

Echochrome II

Funky Lab Rat

Hamster Ball

High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition

High Velocity Bowling

Infamous: Festival of Blood

Kung-Fu Live

The Last Guy

Legasista

Linger in Shadows

Lumines Supernova

Magic Orbz

Magus

Novastrike

PixelJunk 4am

PixelJunk Racers

Planet Minigolf

Punisher: No Mercy

Rain

Savage Moon

Spelunker HD

Super Rub a Dub

Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars

Tales from Space: About a Blob

Trash Panic

Wakeboarding HD

PS VITA

Battle Rockets

Bodycheck

Boss!

Breakquest Extra Evolution

Chronovolt

Coconut Dodge Revitalised

Die!Die!Die!

Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable

Ecolibrium

Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims HD!

Flying Hamster HD

Frobisher Says!

Furmins

The HD Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character

Indoor Sports World

Jungle Rumble Freedom Happiness and Bananas

Kilka Card Gods

Knobswitch

Lemmings Touch

Let’s Fish! Hooked On

Licky The Lucky Lizard Lives Again

Magical Beat

Malicious Rebirth

Maliya

Men’s Room Mayhem

Monsterbag

Murasaki Baby

Nekoburo Cats Block

Ninja Usagimaru: Two Tails of Adventure

Open Me!

Orgarhythm

Pinball Heroes Complete

PlayStation Vita Cliff Diving

PlayStation Vita Fireworks

PlayStation Vita Table Soccer

PulzAR

Puzzle by Nikoli V Slitherlink

Puzzle by Nikoli V Sudoku

Reel Fishing Masters Challenge

Ring Run Circus

Run Like Hell!

Sketchcross

Sokoban Next

Squares

Stardrone Extreme

Stranded a Mars Adventure

Sumioni: Demon Arts

Super Stardust Delta

Surge Deluxe

Table Ice Hockey

Table Mini Golf

Table Top Racing

Table Top Tanks

The Hungry Horde

TXK

Vitamin Z

Z-Run

VITA & PS3

Bentley’s Hackpack

Big Sky Infinity

Deathmatch Village

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock

Foosball 2012

Germinator

Gravity Crash

Motorstorm RC

Ms Germinator

Murasaki Mist Akara’s Journey

When Vikings Attack!

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